![]() ![]() In fact, almost everyone in SAS: Red Notice is a potential double agent, and it falls to Buckingham to save the day single-handed when The Black Swan escape, hijack a Eurostar and threaten to blow a hole in the middle of the Channel.ĭuring a fight scene in new action thriller ‘SAS: Red Notice’. Andy Serkis is somewhere in the background too – chewing as much scenery as possible as an aggressively cockney commander who may or may not be a secret bad guy. He’s taking out gardeners/goons in Hampstead Heath because his squad has zeroed in on a terrorist cell known as The Black Swan – headed by Tom Wilkinson’s ( Batman Begins, The Lone Ranger) crazy millionaire and his psycho daughter, Grace ( Ruby Rose). ![]() “Those are primroses, not pansies!” quips SAS super soldier Tom Buckingham (Sam Heughan, best known for Outlander) as he snaps the neck of a security guard who was stupidly trying to get away with posing as a gardener. ![]() Read more: Ruby Rose: “I’ve been injured a bazillion times – I have a bionic neck!”.Attracting some decent acting talent and featuring a great idea for a claustrophobic action set-piece, SAS: Red Notice is so close to being fun that it’s a real shame to see it let down by a lousy script, lazy directing and enough army cliches to fill a dozen Call Of Duty cutscenes. Red Notice is now streaming on Netflix.Andy McNab’s Channel Tunnel thriller gets the TV-movie treatment and comes off like a bargain bin version of Die Hard, Mission: Impossible and James Bond all rolled into one. There are far better films currently out, but if you open Netflix and start streaming this one, I'm sure you'll at least find some mild enjoyment in certain scenes at the very least. For those of you who like action, comedy, or any of these performers in general, I recommend checking out Red Notice but also try to go in knowing it's nothing special and you'll probably have a disposable good time as I did. This is why there are very few Netflix original films that end up being great. In the end, Red Notice is one of the biggest films Netflix has ever released as an original film and while I'm all for them continuing to do big-budget movies like this, I also feel like they just see a big name and say yes to a project. As I said, I enjoyed myself, it's just riddled with soo many issues/inconsistencies. Red Notice is by far his most ambitious film to date, I just think it's also the most he has ever had faith in his performers to run with the material however they like. I have a blast watching Dodgeball and We're the Millers and I've even enjoyed his work with Johnson on other projects like Central Intelligence or Skyscraper, but his films never take the extra step. It was almost a frustrating watch at times, even though I still fall on the positive side of the movie overall.ĭirector Rawson Marshall Thurber, who also wrote the film, has always made films that ride the line of being both ridiculous and enjoyable, for the most part. I laughed consistently throughout the movie, but also while scratching my head and cringing. This was both equally enjoyable and annoying. There were multiple times where scenes drag on and I firmly believe it was all improv. Red Notice is a film that honestly has about an hour of story to tell, but the film really lets these performers do their thing, a lot. ![]() Yes, this cast has a lot of charisma with each other, but it wasn't enough to make it stand out from any other time I've ever seen them before. I found myself rolling my eyes at the dumb stunts they were pulling off and all of the one-liners that you would expect from all of them. After a certain point, this film just started writing itself. After Booth is captured and Hartley is double-crossed and ends up in prison with him, they eventually begin to work together to take down an even bigger thief in "The Bishop" (Gal Gadot). Working for the BAU, detective John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson)is in pursuit of the most wanted art thief in the world, Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds). There is some fun to be had with Red Notice, but I'll probably forget I watched it a few months from now. I'm a big fan of Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot has really grown on me as an actress too but based solely on the premise, I pretty much knew what to expect with this movie, and I was right. Netflix's Red Notice is the prime example of a generic action-comedy that's clearly banking on its leading performers. Yes, every now and then a film comes out that nobody has heard of and ends up making money because of the stars, but it seems so few and far between these days. It has been decades since films were released and garnered attention simply due to who was in them. ![]()
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